Been doing other things like getting a novel ready for a proofreader-if I can find one. And revising yet another book. And a couple of short stories. And helping my wife with her dad. For the last three months or so his health has been failing. It started when he fell-I was with him-and couldn't get...

I submitted to Q3 back on the 28th of May. I like the story, my only problem is that I like it less than my Q2 submission and that one ended with a SHM. So I have my doubts that this story is going to win this for me. But then again.... who knows? These days I always doubt my stories. This one has ...

No work on it yet. Even during my two week writing vacation I did nothing on WotF. I did finish a novel-now to find an copy editor who doesn't charge too much. But then again I did have a beta reader look it over. And worked on the revision of another novel, did 7 crits for critters, a few flash and...

we have the desk computer in a spare bedroom with a nice computer desk and comfortable chair. I do most of my writing there, to here. But at times I also use the kitchen table and my laptop. This is more comfortable though. My wife needs the computer too at times for her crafts business, so we have ...

Got to start thinking on this one. I originally said I might redo an older story. But I thought of a new story but now not sure which idea I meant. There is one story I started a few months ago and just started to work on again, but I don't know how long-short story, novella, novelette or book. At l...

I just won first place with a story that had more than one significant typo. If your story is good and the typos/grammar errors aren't too distracting, I wouldn't worry about it. wotf007 Really!? That gives me hope haha. I finished reading mine and found a "to" instead of "too" ...

Mine is in. A little different from my usual-no masses of tiny sparkly purple flying unicorns jumping out to scare people, got tired describing them in every way possible. The crits helped with this one, but it is after all my writing. Someone on Q2 forum talked about being dark before dawn. A coupl...

It's our fault really. I mean, nowadays kids can just walk in the house, drop their bags, and say: "Alexa: write my history paper on the socioeconomic differences between pre-Civil War rural American and post-Civil War African Americans in the South." Boom. Easy A. At least in collage stu...

Jeremyteg wrote:I just finished "Senlin Ascends," by Josiah Bancroft. A really cool, very weird steam-punk story involving the Tower of Babel. Probably the best self-published book I've read. I definitely recommend it!

Thought I better get to work on my story but then I remembered I had gone over it already using the last crit. So I just need to go over once more to check things and off it goes. That could be Saturday evening.

Subbed, for the first time in a year. Not with the awesome story I got stuck writing halfway through, or the less awesome story I got incredible feedback that I can't execute on yet, but with something I've had and thought I couldn't use because [reasons]. I pulled it back out and addressed those r...

Sigh. More work. Two people critted it and there were some contradictions. Without going into details one found a few things wrong and the other found many things wrong with the writing-to the point a rewrite might be best to fix it. One wanted a short action scene completely done away with and the ...

I blew it again totally but this time I at least half way expected it since I thought the used a lot meme might not have enough of a twist for him. But then again it may have been more the writing with my overdone opening.

Yesterday I cut 500 words from my story. I'm a putter-inner, not a taker-outer. Feels strange, like, where did the words go? I try to be a cutter, but every time I try to edit this story it gets longer. I'm up to about 5k now, although I need to rewrite my entire first scene so that may change dras...

Having finished my novel, I decided to try and crank out a story before midnight June 30. Sounds rational, right? wotf019 If anyone is still interested in a first x# swap or a whole story swap, I'd be interested. Story should be finished (first draft) this week sometime. Me too. I will be finished ...

Well, I worked more on my revision. But didn't send it any stories. For a couple of different reasons but one was that I was trying to make a file smaller for Analog. Sigh Nothing worked so that was a waste of time. Thing is I sent it in already somehow. But they had problems with the file which pro...

Finally working on the revision. Taking me a bit longer though, Twice now I started to fall asleep while working on it, so after fighting it for a while I quit. And tonight I want to send out some stories.